BCD Nov23 S&T Life's Picture Puzzles 200pc Lady or Tiger USA c1909 Martin & Frances RunDSC09635
Our hosts Martin & Frances suggested the theme and showed two black and white images. This first is a 200pc push-fit jigsaw with an enigmatic title - Lady or Tiger. It appears to show a group of young men engaged in heavy play at cards. A boy has delivered a letter to one man which seems to have given him pause - an awakening conscience perhaps - with a vignette in the corner shows the young woman correspondent - a wife, sister or sweetheart. The title implies that the woman is made of sterner stuff than the man. The artist's name can't quite be read and the whole suggests an illustration to a moral tale - a genre on the evils of living above one's income or on the expectation of an inheritance.
Martin consulted Anne Williams about the jigsaw, which had a price of $2 on the back. Anne said the jigsaw was produced in the 'USA first puzzle craze of 1908-9' for the Life Publishing Company of New York City. The maker(s) of the jigsaws which were advertised in the magazine are not known.
Many of the Life Puzzles used black & white illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson.
BCD Nov23 S&T Life's Picture Puzzles 200pc Lady or Tiger USA c1909 Martin & Frances RunDSC09635
Our hosts Martin & Frances suggested the theme and showed two black and white images. This first is a 200pc push-fit jigsaw with an enigmatic title - Lady or Tiger. It appears to show a group of young men engaged in heavy play at cards. A boy has delivered a letter to one man which seems to have given him pause - an awakening conscience perhaps - with a vignette in the corner shows the young woman correspondent - a wife, sister or sweetheart. The title implies that the woman is made of sterner stuff than the man. The artist's name can't quite be read and the whole suggests an illustration to a moral tale - a genre on the evils of living above one's income or on the expectation of an inheritance.
Martin consulted Anne Williams about the jigsaw, which had a price of $2 on the back. Anne said the jigsaw was produced in the 'USA first puzzle craze of 1908-9' for the Life Publishing Company of New York City. The maker(s) of the jigsaws which were advertised in the magazine are not known.
Many of the Life Puzzles used black & white illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson.